Johansson remarked that it was difficult for her to get decent roles when she was a teenager because adults wrote the scripts, and such screenplays “portray kids like mall rats and not seriously… Kids and teenagers just aren’t being portrayed with any real depth.” Johansson was speaking on the difficulty of finding excellent roles when she was a teenager.
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in the borough of Manhattan in the city of New York, New York, United States. Her father is an architect by trade and hails all the way from Copenhagen, Denmark; his name is Karsten Olaf Johansson. Her maternal grandmother was Swedish, while her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a film director, screenwriter, and art historian.
Sloan is descended from an Ashkenazi Jewish family that fled Poland and Russia and initially used the surname Schlamberg. Johansson identifies as Jewish, and her mother comes from that same family. She also has an elder brother named Adrian, an older sister named Vanessa, who is also an actor, and a twin brother named Hunter.